KDE Kiosk mode

makes sure that the programs behind the desktop icons also show up in the kde panel

adept is not started

makes sure that students cannot start another kde session

disables possibility to gain root access for students

debian_edu_root (enabled for the root user and members of the admins file group)

adds a desktop icon to connect to the local webserver on tjener to provide easy access to all the administration programs

Note:: modifications to the profiles can be done using kiosktool. However, unless you follow the step below, your changes will be overwritten by upgrades.

If you want to modify the kiosk profiles, you can either copy the existing ones and modify them, or create new kiosk profiles in (for example) /etc/kde3/kioskprofiles/ and enable them in /etc/kde-user-profile. The kiosk tool will do this for you if you click "profile properties" and browse to a new folder.

Changing kioskmode on diskless workstations

After you have made changes to the kioskmode settings with kiosktool like described above, you will have to copy some files inside the chroot used by the diskless workstation.

Assuming the diskless workstations are running i386, the following commands must be executed on the workstation server(s):

as the flashplugin-nonfree package is only an installer-package (and does not contain the flashplugin itself, for legal reasons), it also requires a working internet connection as it will download the precompiled binary from Adobes website.

Sound with Flash in thin clients

You need to install this as root:

and make one change in /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux/ etch-test local

And that followed by aptitude update and aptitude install flashplayer-nonfree-extrasound

remeber to remove deb http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux/ etch-test local from source list after that and run aptitude update again.

To get the sound working, you also need the latest flashplugin-nonfree package installed (23st of Jan: 9.0.115.0.1~etch1).

Other useful plugins

After adding the multimedia repository (see below):

apt-get install mozilla-mplayer mozilla-acroread acroread-plugins

Playing DVDs

libdvdcss is needed for playing most commercial! DVDs. For legal reasons it's not included in Debian (Edu). If you are legally allowed to use it, you can use the packages from deb-multimedia.org. Add the multimedia repository and install multimedia and dvd libraries: